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View Poll Results: How many miles on your engine?
Original engine, under 60,000 miles
14
6.93%
Original engine, under 100,000 miles
31
15.35%
Original engine, under 150,000 miles
48
23.76%
Original engine, more than 150,000 miles
68
33.66%
Replacement engine, under 60,000 miles
20
9.90%
Replacement engine, under 100,000 miles
6
2.97%
Replacement engine, under 150,000 miles
2
0.99%
Replacement engine, more than 150,000 miles
13
6.44%
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Old Feb 16, 2003 | 04:46 AM
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most miles ive seen was 289,000 and still going!

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Old Feb 16, 2003 | 02:33 PM
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My '82 had 155,000 miles on it when I sold it, and it still ran good and didn't use coolant. My current '79 just cracked the 103,000 mark. The '79 has been well kept in it's long life.
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Old Feb 18, 2003 | 06:17 PM
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My 82 had 189,000 on it when it let go. I just got an 85 with 169,000 and it looks and was claimed to be orig.
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Old Feb 18, 2003 | 07:14 PM
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got less than 1 mile on my 12a J-bridgeport in the racecar.

got about 300 miles on the rebuild big 4port 13b in the repu

the 12a stock motor i had in the racecar when it was daily driver lasted 225,000 miles and it was a little low on compression and had dowel pin leak, but it still hummed like Monica Lewenski!

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Old Feb 19, 2003 | 09:38 AM
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295,000kms on the engine and body of my GSL-SE daily driver. And I still wind it up to 7500rpm pretty much daily.
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Old Apr 13, 2003 | 11:19 AM
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Body: 73.000 km, that'll be 45.000 miles.
Engine: 10.000 miles. The engine was bought new, not a rebuild, in 2000.
Might go for a street port someday, but don't find it smart to open up a healthy low-milage engine to do a rebuild/porting job on...
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Old Apr 13, 2003 | 10:39 PM
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166k... original motor....ran really bad before... but running better now... with love and care...
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Old Apr 13, 2003 | 10:54 PM
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My '85 GSL 12a has 180,000 km on the original motor. The car still runs very strong!
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 09:19 AM
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I had a friend get 320,000 out of his '82 before it seized...Mines only at 104,000, so hopefully it will last forever!
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 04:05 PM
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I thought sitting was bad for rotary engines?

Oh well- check my sig for miles.
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 07:10 PM
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2hrs idleing in my driveway in 2nd gear -breaking it in
160 hours on the dyno -breaking it in, then powertuning
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Old Apr 14, 2003 | 09:10 PM
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163,000 km.... however the hell I'm supposed to know what that is in miles is beyond me. Only Americans and a few backwards 3rd world countries use that old system anway. 12" in a foot, 3 feet in a yard.. who came up with this? some insane, drunk monkey?

10s baby, it's all about 10s. Metric makes so much more sense.
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Old Apr 15, 2003 | 03:43 AM
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Originally posted by vipernicus42
163,000 km.... however the hell I'm supposed to know what that is in miles is beyond me. Only Americans and a few backwards 3rd world countries use that old system anway. 12" in a foot, 3 feet in a yard.. who came up with this? some insane, drunk monkey?

10s baby, it's all about 10s. Metric makes so much more sense.


Actually it was some insane, drunk english monkey who came up with that Anyway, I believe 1 mile is about 1.6km. So your engine did about 100.000 miles.
Hope I'm right with this, cause obviously we aren't using miles over here either (thank god!). Long live metric the system
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Old Apr 17, 2003 | 11:49 AM
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The metric system rules! I could even go for metric time! You know, 10 hours instead of 12 on the clock face etc.
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